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Animals on the Edge: Images – Material Culture – Texts Call for Papers for Session Proposal at the 2019 International Medieval Congress University of Leeds The Medieval Animal Data-network (MAD) is seeking submissions for three sessions for the 2019 International Medieval Congress which takes place in Leeds from the 1st to the...

Leiden University, 4 April 2019 – 5 April 2019 Deadline: October 1st 2018 On April 4th and 5th, 2019, Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) will be hosting a conference called, Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation. This graduate conference is an international and interdisciplinary platform where PhD and master students can...

ZOOGRAPHEIN – Depicting and describing animals in ancient Greece, Rome and beyond Cornell University, Ithaca NY September 8-10, 2017 In collaboration with the research network ZOOMATHIA Call for papers deadline: February 1, 2017 Greek and Roman culture is replete with verbal and visual descriptions and depictions of animals, from Herodotus’ gold-digging ants or...

INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF THE MEDIEVAL ANIMAL DATA NETWORK (MAD) Animals on the Move in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period 10–11 November, 2017, Stockholm University, Sweden The DEADLINE for submissions is 28 February, 2017. M(edieval) A(nimal) D(ata-networks) (http://www.imareal.sbg.ac.at/mad/ ; http://mad.hypotheses.org/) was conceived as a way to bring together scholars interested in the...

Medieval Equestrianism at the International Medieval Congress 2017, Leeds Following the success of edieval equestrianism sessions at the International medieval congress (IMC) Leeds 2016, we invite papers for special sessions on medieval equestrian history for the IMC at Leeds in 2017. We welcome papers on theoretical and practical aspects of medieval equestrianism, as...

First circular : February 2016 The XXIInd Colloquium of the International Reynard Society will be held in Reading, under the auspices of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, 12-16 July 2017. Reading is conveniently situated, just 30 minutes by train from London and within easy access of Heathrow airport. Reading University’s attractive campus...

Aquatic Animals and Monsters of the Northern Seas Imagination, knowledge, exploitation, from Antiquity to 1600 Deadline for abstract submission: May, 31st 2016 Place : Centre culturel de Cerisy-la-Salle (France, Normandy), May 32st – June 3rd 2017 The Colloquium is devoted to the history of fish, aquatic monsters and mammals in the northern seas...

Call for papers deadline: 31 December 2015 Conrad Gessner, Zurich doctor, naturalist, and polymath, was the father of book history, the first to describe the flora of the Alps, the founder of modern zoology, a pioneer of biology, and author of the most richly illustrated book about minerals and fossils produced in the...

Many scholars researching the Middle Ages come across references to animals, but these references are sometimes tangential and they are relegated to a footnote if they ever make it into an article or book at all. The Medieval Animal Data-Network is trying to bring these stranded pieces of evidence regarding animals in the...

Call For Papers: Medieval Pets Enarratio Special Issue Editor: Kristen Figg Essays are sought for a special issue of Enarratio on medieval pets. Papers may approach different kinds of pets from different disciplinary perspectives, and through a variety of textual types from narrative fiction to nonfiction. Potential topics include but are not limited to:...

The 2014 Animaliter colloquium will take place in Darmstadt (May, 26-27, 2014). Topics are: Animals and Words: Talking about Animals – Talking with Animals – Talking Animals. Deadline of call for papers is December 31th, 2013.

Call for papers (deadline November 5th, 2013) International meeting/symposium of The medieval animal data network University of Louisville, Kentucky, 6th and 7th of May, 2014 (Un)Expected Animals in (Un)Expected Places in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period The M(edieval) A(nimal) D(ata-networks) (http://mad.hypotheses.org/) is conceived as a way to bring together scholars interested...